Cropping PDF in Preview

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Cropping PDF in Preview

Hello,

I am scanning in multiple pages into a PDF and I cannot crop any of the pages, as the option is grayed out. If I scan only one page into a PDF then I am able to crop. Any ideas? I have looked in Preview help and I see no limitations listed for cropping, it should work on multi page PDF's as well, unless I'm missing something..

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1.42Ghz Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.3.8)

Posted on Sep 18, 2007 12:03 PM

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Answer 1

eww

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Sep 18, 2007 12:51 PM in response to Hunter Stechman

Hi, Hunter, I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are you scanning paper documents into an application on your Mac, then saving a multipage document as a single PDF file? What application are you scanning into? Is that the same one you're trying to crop the scanned images with?

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Answer 2

Sep 19, 2007 1:27 PM in response to eww

Hi eww,

What I am doing is scanning multiple pages of a book into one PDF file using the Scansoft utility that came with the Canon scanner (worked great). I am then opening the PDF file with Apple Preview. If I have a PDF with one page then I can crop fine in Preview, on the other hand if it is a multi page PDF then I cannot seem to do this with Preview. This is just a way to clean up the pages for better viewing and would much rather use this built in solution to OS X then to go out and buy something such as Adobe Reader.

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Answer 3

Sep 19, 2007 3:15 PM in response to Hunter Stechman

If you don't get a solution, consider this alternative.

Scan each page & save as a single page. Then do your cropping with Preview. Then put all the single PDFs into a multiple page PDF using:

You can combine individual PDFs into one PDF using one of these freeware utilities.

PDFMergeX @ http://www.malcom-mac.com/blog/pdfmergex/

joinPDF @ http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16604

Combine PDFs @ http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml>

PDFLab (join & split) @ http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab/

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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Answer 4

Sep 24, 2007 1:23 PM in response to Texas Mac Man

That'll work Tom.

Thaks!
Hunter

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